However, the conversation took a turn when he joked about what shows he watched in particular.
While discussing how he prepared for the role, Garfield explained that he wanted to do justice to his friends in the gay community and to those he didn't know personally, and that he watched numerous documentaries and did research into what it was like being a gay American. Although some have come to Garfield's defense suggesting that he's an ally of the LGBTQ community who was making a joke or misspoke, Garfield's comments are problematic as they perpetuate stereotypes that have long hindered gay men and women. Garfield is currently playing the character of Prior Walters, a gay man living with AIDS, in Tony Kushner's theater production of Angels in America, and he made the controversial comments during a panel discussion of the play. The internet has been buzzing recently about comments actor Andrew Garfield made about being 'a gay man right now, just without the physical act', because he has been watching RuPaul's Drag Race.
